When time
is of the essence, every moment that you wait for a patient’s information could
have life altering repercussions for the individual and their family. The
ability to cut out this waiting time won’t just help you respond to the needs
of a single patient quicker, you’ll also be able to maintain a continuous flow
of patients through your health system
By supporting the exchange of data across
organisational, geographical and technological boundaries, caregivers can
access clinical information from any venue of care. That means that
medications, pre-existing conditions, test results, allergies and more can all
easily be considered when clinicians are creating health plans for patients,
with safer and more timely decisions reached at the point of care.
The
health information exchange (HIE) provides integration services via a one-way
HL7 API and two-way REST API to integrate all sources of health and social care
information across a region. It uniquely solves the consent to share and access
patient information by allowing the patient to manage the permissions of each
organisation, team or individual via the user interface of the patient portal.
It provides granular consent to segment the record and allow permission to be
granted by the individual for secondary uses of data (such as population
analytics). The consent API provides all other connected systems with details
of what information can be shared with each organisation, with a medico-legally
audited ‘break glass’ functionality for overriding patient consent in cases of
emergency or lack of capacity, where it in the person’s best interest. The HIE
is managed by a publish-subscribe architecture and connects to integration
engines and to most major systems in primary, secondary and tertiary care to
deliver fully coded medical data in a view only or read/write approach. It is a
fully hosted service with zero infrastructure requirements.
